Tony Martin, who killed Bergler in Farmhouse, died

A family friend said the convict Tony Martin, who shot and shot a teenager intruder in his home in 1999, died at the age of 80.

The murder of 16-year-old Fred Beras at Martin’s Norfolk Farmhouse was very controversial at the time, the country divided whether his works were pre-paid, or just a farmer defended himself and his property. .

Martin was imprisoned in 2000 to kill a boy, and 29 -year -old Brendon Firan was injured in the same incident, to injure another person, sentenced to murder before being released three years later The punishment for murder was reduced.

At the time of the Martin incident, Norfolk/Cambrisshire lived on his own at his vast, semi-ritual farmhouse in Amneth Hungate, near Visbech on the border.

On the night of 20 August 1999, the pair entered their house, in a separate part of the village with the intention of theft.

He traveled from Newark in Nottinghamshire that evening to raid the property, Blake House, where Martin stored antiques.